One Step Closer to IPv6

gbjbaanb writes "IPv6 came a step closer yesterday as ICANN added IPv6 host records to the root DNS servers, reports the BBC. 'Paul Twomey, president of Icann which oversees the addressing system, told the BBC News website there was a need to start moving to IPv6. "There's pressure for people to make the conversion to IPv6," he said. "We're pushing this as a major issue." The reason for the urgency, he said, was because the unallocated addresses from the total of 4,294,967,296 possible with IPv4 was rapidly running out. "We're down to 14% of the unallocated addresses out of the whole pool for version 4," he said. Projections suggest that this unallocated pool will run out by 2011 at the latest.'"

Comments

My home network allows over 10M hosts

[davidwr]

Sadly, it can't Talk dirEctly to my Next-DOor neighbor, who runs an equally large neTwork.

Re:Sad

[Anonymous Coward]

I completely agree with you. That is why I am going to pledge my entire allocation of the 10.0.0.0/8 network back to the IANA. As long as we ensure that it is reallocated properly, I think it will be a huge benefit for the Internet as a whole. For those of you who might control a part of or the entire 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16 network, you might want to ask yourself this question: do I really need that many addresses?

Peak IP?

[misleb]

Have we reached Peak IP?

Re:Sad

[TheRaven64]

Thats 2^48 Internets! Why would you want that? One of my staff sent me an Internet the other week, and it took three days to arrive! If everyone has 2^48 Internets, my staff's Internets will never arrive.

Re:Sad

[misleb]

Didn't Bill Gates once say, "127.0.0.1 should be enough for anybody." Damn, he's always so short sited.

Re:Sad

[Guppy06]

I just hope that the guy who holds the 127.0.0.0/8 network never follows suit. All his hosts have the largest pr0n collection I've ever seen!

Re:Sad

[CopaceticOpus]

But 3% of 2011 is over 60 years!